{"id":29201,"date":"2024-04-27T16:54:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T16:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=29201"},"modified":"2024-04-27T16:54:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T16:54:06","slug":"measles-complications-claim-lives-of-19-children-in-adamawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/04\/27\/measles-complications-claim-lives-of-19-children-in-adamawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Measles Complications Claim Lives of 19 Children in Adamawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tragic news emerged from Mubi North Local Government Area of Adamawa State as reports confirmed the loss of 19 young lives due to suspected measles complications.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner for Health, Mr Felix Tangwami, disclosed this sorrowful development to journalists in Mubi on Saturday, highlighting that over 200 children in the area have been affected by the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak was first reported in Yola, prompting swift action with the mobilization of medical personnel and essential medications to affected communities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tangwami assured the public that children with severe infections would receive necessary medical attention in hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In response to the escalating situation, the medical team is set to extend its efforts to Gombi Local Government Area, where another outbreak has been reported.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tangwami attributed the outbreak to the reluctance of some parents to immunize their children, emphasizing the critical importance of vaccination in preventing such tragedies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tragic news emerged from Mubi North Local Government Area of Adamawa State as reports confirmed the loss of 19 young lives due to suspected measles complications. &nbsp; Commissioner for Health, Mr Felix Tangwami, disclosed this sorrowful development to journalists in Mubi on Saturday, highlighting that over 200 children in the area have been affected by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":29202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29203,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29201\/revisions\/29203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}